title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
A Tale of the Summer Holidays | Mockler, Geraldine | en | | | | Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction; Play -- Juvenile fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-11-13 |
The Country of the Pointed Firs | Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 | en | | | | Maine -- Fiction; Women authors -- Fiction; Authorship -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Pastoral fiction; Country life -- Fiction; Seaside resorts -- Fiction; Summer resorts -- Fiction | 2008-07-11 |
Queen Summer
or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose | Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 | en | | | | English poetry -- 19th century; Chivalry -- Juvenile poetry; Flowers -- Juvenile poetry; Knights and knighthood -- Juvenile poetry; Queens -- Juvenile poetry; Tournaments, Medieval -- Juvenile poetry | 2008-01-28 |
Patty's Summer Days | Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942 | en | | | | Family -- Juvenile fiction; Weddings -- Juvenile fiction; Vacations -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Automobiles -- Juvenile fiction; Girls -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-06-21 |
Heart of the West | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | Hearts and Crosses — The Ransom of Mack — Telemachus, Friend — The Handbook of Hymen — The Pimienta Pancakes — Seats of the Haughty — Hygeia at the Solito — An Afternoon Miracle — The Higher Abdication — Cupid a la Carte — The Caballero's Way — The Sphinx Apple — The Missing Chord — A Call Loan — The Princess and the Puma — The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson — Christmas by Injunction — A Chaparral Prince — The Reformation of Calliope. | | Fiction; Short stories | 2004-07-27 |
Heart of the West [Annotated] | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | Hearts and Crosses -- The Ransom of Mack -- Telemachus, Friend -- The Handbook of Hymen -- The Pimienta Pancakes -- Seats of the Haughty -- Hygeia at the Solito -- An Afternoon Miracle -- The Higher Abdication -- Cupid a la Carte -- The Caballero's Way -- The Sphinx Apple -- The Missing Chord -- A Call Loan -- The Princess and the Puma -- The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson -- Christmas by Injunction -- A Chaparral Prince -- The Reformation of Calliope. | Loewenstein, Joseph E. [Annotator] | | 2004-08-03 |
Frenzied Fiction | Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 | en | | My revelations as a spy -- Father Knickerbocker: a fantasy -- The prophet in our midst -- Personal adventures in the spirit world -- The sorrows of a summer guest -- To nature and back again -- The cave man as he is -- Ideal interviews -- The new education -- The errors of Santa Claus -- Lost in New York -- This strenuous age -- The old, old story of how five men went fishing -- Back from the land -- The perplexity column as done by the jaded journalist -- Simple stories of success, or How to succeed in life -- In dry Toronto -- Merry Christmas. | | | 2005-07-01 |
The Forsyte Saga - Complete | Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 | en | | The Man of Property -- Indian Summer of a Forsyte -- In Chancery -- Awakening -- To Let. | | England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Forsyte family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction; Middle class -- England -- Fiction; Family -- England -- Fiction; Women -- England -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Domestic fiction | 2006-06-14 |
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman | Inchfawn, Fay, 1880- | en | | The long view -- Within my house -- The housewife -- To mother -- In such an hour -- The daily interview -- The little house -- The house-mother -- A woman in hospital -- In convalescence -- Homesick -- On washing day -- When baby strayed -- If only... -- Listening -- The dear folks in Devon -- The reason -- Two women -- The prize fight -- The home lights -- To an old teapot -- To a rebellious daughter -- For mothering! -- Little fan -- The naughty day -- To a little white bird -- Because -- When he comes -- Early spring -- The witness -- In Somerset -- Song of a woodland stream -- Luggage in advance -- At the cross roads -- Summer met me -- The carrier -- The lad's love by the gate -- The thrush -- In Dorset dear -- The flight of the fairies -- The street player -- On All Soul's Eve -- The log fire -- God save the king. | | English poetry; Housewives -- Poetry | 2002-10-01 |
Heidi
(Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901 | en | | PART I
HEIDI'S YEARS OF LEARNING AND TRAVEL
I Going up to the Alm-Uncle
II. With the Grandfather
III. On the Pasture
IV. In the Grandmother's Hut
V. Two Visitors
VI. A New Chapter with New Things
VII. Miss Rottenmeier Has an Uncomfortable Day
VIII. Great Disturbances in the Sesemann House
IX. The Master of the House Hears of Strange Doings
X. A Grandmama
XI. Heidi Gains in Some Respects and Loses in Others
XII. The Sesemann House is Haunted
XIII. Up the Alp on a Summer Evening
XIV. On Sunday When the Church Bells Ring
PART II
HEIDI MAKES USE OF HER EXPERIENCE
XV. Preparations for a Journey
XVI. A Guest on the Alp
XVII. Retaliation
XVIII. Winter in the Village
XIX. Winter Still Continues
XX. News from Distant Friends
XXI. On Further Events on the Alp
XXII. Something Unexpected Happens
XXIII. Parting to Meet Again | | Orphans -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Switzerland -- Fiction; Switzerland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2007-03-09 |
The Best Short Stories of 1915
And the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- The wake / Donn Byrne -- Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort -- La dernière mobilisation / W.A. Dwiggins -- The citizen / James Francis Dwyer -- Whose dog? / Frances Gregg -- Life / Ben Hecht -- T.B. / Fannie Hurst -- Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson -- Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan -- The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon -- -- Heart of youth / Walter J. Muilenburg -- The end of the path / Newbold Noyes -- The whale and the grasshopper / Seumas Obrien -- In Berlin / Mary Boyle O’Reilly -- The waiting years / Katharine Metcalf Roof -- Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- The survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- The yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The bounty-jumper / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-01-07 |
Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |
Steep Trails
California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon | Muir, John, 1838-1914 | en | | Wild wool -- A geologist's winter walk -- Summer days at Mount Shasta -- A perilous night on Shasta's summit -- Shasta rambles and Modoc memories -- The city of the Saints -- A great storm in Utah -- Bathing in Salt Lake-- Mormon lilies -- The San Gabriel Valley -- The San Gabriel Mountains -- Nevada farms -- Nevada forests -- Nevada's timber belt -- Glacial phenomena in Nevada -- Nevada's dead towns -- Puget Sound -- The forests of Washington --People and towns of Puget Sound -- An ascent of Mount Rainier -- The physical and climatic characteristics of Oregon -- The forests of Oregon and their inhabitants -- The rivers of Oregon -- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 [Editor] | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain); Forests and forestry -- West (U.S.) | 1995-09-01 |
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Volume I | Various | en | | IRVING -- Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE Old Grimes -- HOLMES My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful -- "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") -- Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- SILL Five Lives -- FIELDS The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS Living in the Country -- LELAND Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County. | Masson, Thomas L., 1866-1934 [Editor] | | 2007-04-21 |